The present study describes how deaf and hard-of-hearing (d/hh) children who primarily use listening/spoken English (oral d/hh) solve one-step arithmetic story problems. Past research examined the story problem-solving of hearing children (Carpenter et al., 2015) and d/hh children who used age-appropriate American Sign Language (signing d/hh;…

The manual gestures that hearing children produce when explaining their answers to math problems predict whether they will profit from instruction in those problems. We ask here whether gesture plays a similar role in deaf children, whose primary communication system is in the manual modality. Forty ASL-signing deaf children explained their…

Since 1969 the Insurance Institute of Highway Safety has concentrated on researching, demonstrating, and communicating to the public methods of reducing highway losses. The Institute has established a framework to classify the nature of each kind of loss (human, vehicle and equipment, and environment) in relation to the three phases of the crash…